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26 06 2020 | 06:57

Amazon to Start $2 Billion Fund to Back Climate Technologies.

Amazon.com Inc. is investing $2 billion on “sustainable and decarbonizing technologies” in an effort to eliminate its carbon footprint.

26 06 2020 | 06:57

Italian team covers glacier with giant white sheets to slow melting.

Every summer, the Presena glacier in northern Italy is protected from the sun with huge reflective tarps. A vast tarpaulin unravels, gathering speed as it bounces down the glacier over glinting snow…

25 06 2020 | 11:22

Climate crisis threatens future of global sport, says report.

Study says heatwaves, fires and floods, and rising sea levels pose major threat over coming years. The rapidly accelerating climate crisis threatens the future of major sports events around the…

25 06 2020 | 10:34

Mercury Pollution Found in Deepest Part of Ocean.

Plastic isn't the only human pollutant infiltrating the deepest corners of the ocean. Two separate studies presented at the Goldschmidt geochemistry conference this week found mercury in fish and…

24 06 2020 | 08:43

India: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s new ‘One Sun One World One Grid’ vision positive.

Working towards a single, globally connected electricity grid Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India has announced a new ‘One Sun One World One Grid’ (OSOWOG) vision for India to replicate its global…

24 06 2020 | 08:32

GE looks to 3D printing to build next generation of taller, less costly wind turbines.

GE announced today that it’s developing skyscraper-sized wind turbines with massive 3D-printed bases. The conglomerate plans to work with partners in the construction industry to produce both a…

24 06 2020 | 08:31

Latino Voters Worried About Climate Change Could Swing 2020 Election.

President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden are in a dead heat in Texas, a state that has swung Republican in every presidential election since 1976. If Biden pulls off the unthinkable…

24 06 2020 | 08:19

LCAW 2020: Harnessing the power of London for global climate action.

July marks the return of London Climate Action Week and the 2nd edition of the Climate Innovation Forum - the largest multi-stakeholder platform designed to advance the UK’s low carbon economy.…

24 06 2020 | 08:15

COP Bureau Reschedules UNFCCC Subsidiary Body Meetings to 2021.

Bonn - At a virtual meeting yesterday, the Bureau of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC decided to postpone the UN Climate Change meetings of the Subsidiary Bodies (SB52) until next year.…

24 06 2020 | 08:15

UK government invests in sustainable aviation with creation of ‘Jet Zero Council’,

UK Government set a new target to make transatlantic flights sustainable in 'greener restart' for aviation sector. The Department for Transport (DfT) has announced plans to enhance the UK’s nascent…

23 06 2020 | 11:08

Mediterranean’s first floating offshore wind farm to be located off Sicily.

The Strait of Sicily is set to become the home of a 250-MW floating wind park, the first of its kind in the Mediterranean, Italian daily Il Sole 24 Ore reports.

23 06 2020 | 07:32

IEA unveils new Sustainable Recovery Plan to put emissions into structural decline.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has presented a Sustainable Recovery Plan focusing on a series of actions that can be taken over the next three years to revitalise economies and boost…

22 06 2020 | 13:46

Siberian town records highest-ever temperature in the Arctic Circle.

The 38 degrees Celsius reading is 18 degrees warmer than the average June high temperature. A north-eastern Siberian town looks to have set a record for the highest temperature ever documented in…

22 06 2020 | 08:15

Amazing Drone Footage Captures Thousands of Turtles Migrating Near Great Barrier Reef.

Australian researchers captured a stunning scene that looks like something out of Finding Nemo. The drone the scientists used recorded approximately 64,000 green turtles migrating near Australia's …

22 06 2020 | 07:59

Climate crisis: alarm at record-breaking heatwave in Siberia.

Unusually high temperatures in region linked to wildfires, oil spill and moth swarms. A prolonged heatwave in Siberia is “undoubtedly alarming”, climate scientists have said. The freak temperatures…

22 06 2020 | 07:58

Norway looks to tap into export markets with 4.5GW of potential offshore wind development.

Norway has opened two areas for offshore wind power developments in the North Sea, including one along its maritime border with Denmark, the energy ministry said on Friday. Western Europe’s largest…

22 06 2020 | 07:57

Climate emission killer: construction begins on world’s biggest liquid air battery

Exclusive: project will store renewable energy and reduce climate-heating emissions Construction is beginning on the world’s largest liquid air battery, which will store renewable electricity and…

22 06 2020 | 07:56

Neon's 30MW/30MWh battery storage project in Finland to help stabilise grid.

French renewable energy developer Neoen has announced plans to develop a 30 MW/30 MWh storage project near Lappeenranta, in southern Finland. The Yllikkälä Power Reserve One project will stabilize…

22 06 2020 | 07:51

Worst outbreak ever': Nearly a million pigs culled in Nigeria due to swine fever.

Farmers report devastating losses as poor control measures are blamed for spread of infection across the country Hundreds of thousands of pigs have been culled by Nigerian farmers in response to an…

22 06 2020 | 07:47

Statkraft to begin construction of floating solar plant in Albania by end-June.

TIRANA (Albania) - Norway's Statkraft is looking to start the construction of a floating solar plant with a maximum capacity of 2 MW at the Banja reservoir in southeastern Albania by the end of June…